So Much for Putting Politics Aside to Solve This Financial Crisis

McCain says all hands on deck, and Bush says mission accomplished. But Bush told McStall, to ‘PASS THIS DARN BILL’. Will McCain listen, to Bush, or will the Republicans, tell McCain ‘No’? This situation puts McCain right, in the middle of the Republican and Bush. Which side will he take. Will he have the Democrates bail, him out? Since McCain is worried about, Chewing Gum and Walking, at the same time, will he use another Obama crutch? McCain has tried to adapt to changing staff memebers, due to scandels. Can he keep Palin quiet, a little longer. Palin doesn’t answer Americans questions, and Obama has taken on a stronger stance, for Middle America. Now, will McCain dodge Obama, at the debate?

You need to be physically present for a floor vote.

RT I would say the difference is it is easy to play politics long distance, via phone, email, etc, a completely different story to look one straight in the face and try to play the same game. Aside from that, I don’t want my president cramming for an exam and trying to work out the economy at the same time, I want his full undivided attention put on a crisis that needs to be addressed ASAP.

Sen. Obama would never shy away from a debate and insult the American public. He’s not the kind of person to back out of a commitment at the last minute. McSame is so insulting to my intelliegence that it makes my brain hurt. We can all see through your pathetic political gimmick, McSame.

samhuiguchi,
Let’s all hold hands and meditate.

McCain says his campaign is suspended yet his surrogates are attacking Obama just like any other day today. Also, Bob Barr, Libertarian, has stepped up to the plate since Mccain can not handle more than one thing at a time.
“Given Senator McCain’s political stunt to avoid the debate, I ask that Friday’s debate moves forward without him, as I am more than willing to step in to participate,” Mr. Barr said in a statement this morning.

1st McCain sticks it to Letterman, and now he’s sticking it to the American people by ducking the debates in an attempt to run out the clock and be “gaffe-less” into election day. This is a stunt pure and simple. And if Obama
did it or went along with it he should be punished too.

Big surprise there.
Obama proves yet again that he’s no uniter and not interested in bipartisanship (which anyone who has been paying attention already knew).
The main thing, though, is that Obama (a poor debater and foreign-policy weakling) has already crammed for the debate, and doesn’t want something trivial like an economic crisis to get in the way of his campaign schedule.

What is McCain going to offer to this problem, nothing, it’s ploy and he looks scared and he’s trying to scare the public, saying that he needs to be there to help, with what? he knows nothing on the economy, he said it himself, go debate and prove that you are the man in charge…

Jake, McCain hasn’s suspended his campain AT ALL.
Read his remarks at CGI, see his nationwide on television, and above all, check Jonathan Martin’s report at Politico:
What exactly constitutes a “suspended campaign?”
Well, Team McCain is still working away this morning. Joe Pounder, the indefatigable press aide, blasted out his morning email of clips and quips to reporters with just a bit of dissonance
From Team McCain: “Good morning –
John McCain will be in New York City this morning to address the Clinton Global Initiative and then heads back to Washington, D.C. As announced yesterday, the campaign is suspending after today’s remarks. Now on to today’s news…”
_ _ _
In other words: a suspension in name only. A lie. A cheat. Cynical politics in its purest manifestation.

I correct myself, Jon Do seems to think that McCain meditating outside of the Banking and Finance Committee Room will bring peace and understanding to the halls of Congress.

Boy I can’t imagine how one could get from washington to Miss. in only a few hours, if only someone would invent some sort of transportation that would help lessen the time traveling. Maybe in the air, since roads can get congested around cities.
What we seem to be forgetting and what underscores some of the economic crisis is, what happens to the hotels and buisnesses in Miss. if the debate is cancelled, how much is lost?
The university already put down a few million, I am sure Hotels in the area are booked solid.
Change the debate to the economy, both have had equal time to get ready for it then.
side note: if you dont’ think mcCain in dc is political, he himself admitted to not being to keen on the economy, so what help would he be?

The funniest thing about this stunt was McCain’s skipping out on Dave Letterman and saying he was going to Washington right away when he was in fact doing an interview with Katie Couric in the same studio. McCain again found the truth inconvenient.

“Aside from that, I don’t want my president cramming for an exam and trying to work out the economy at the same time”
How is that relevant? In case you hadn’t noticed, neither McCain nor Obama is the President yet.
They’re both senators. What’s more, they’re senators who aren’t economics experts. Neither of them would normally be directly involved with the negotiations for a bill such as this.
Even if you do think they should be acting as if they are President already, the direct intervention of a President is not necessarily a good thing. No-one is an expert in everything. What a President should be doing is ensuring that those who actually do have the appropriate expertise are working on it, not rolling up his sleeves and getting stuck in regardless of whether he can contribute anything or not.
What they can do is raise support for the bill, but they don’t have to be there to do that. They can call people, issue statements, etc. They don’t have to suspend campaigning – particularly when there’s only 39 days left before the election!
If a Presidential candidate is not capable of doing that and preparing for a debate at the same time, then I think that raises serious questions about their ability to actually be President.

Leonard Peltier,
Carefully re-read my post and maybe, just maybe, it will clear up your lack of understanding.

One of the sorriest things in this whole godawful mess was Palin telling Katie Couric in an interview (her 2nd in 5 weeks! Wow! )that the American people are looking to “Jawn McCain” in this crisis – they’re not looking to Barack Obama.” (A) So much for not politicizing the issue, (B) when Couric pointed out that polls EVERYWHERE show that the public trusts Obama more with this economic crisis, Palin repeated, well, he’s a maverick and the American people trust him – or some drivel to that effect. The woman is a harpy and she’s divorced from reality. At least she had that pastor pray that she would be witchcraft-free though!!
If Palin gets elected, is there a chance for a reprise of the Salem witchcraft trials? Smart money says yes.

McCain is acting very impulsively. I’d hate to think of his finger on that red button as impulsive as he is.
And who does he think he is, God? He’s going to Washington to work some miracle?
Nothing but politics at it’s worst. McShame.

If McCain can’t face Letterman, then how can he face Ahmenijhad??? It’s a good question. Oh wait, he won’t face him, he’ll just BOMB him, Ugh! More debt and dead people on the back of Bush and McCain. When is there ever enough death and destruction for these two???

Rex, that’s great, maybe we can e-mail her the info….

Jake, have you thought of this:
McCain’s let’s-postpone-the-debate idea may not be a real possibility now that Obama has indicated he won’t play ball. But here’s a factor to consider with the proposal itself: by the time the next scheduled (or, as McCain would have it, “first”) presidential debate takes place, 16 states will already be voting. That includes battlegrounds like Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Paige,
LOL, bring it!
Obama was definitely PRESENT for votes! Priceless…
The reason Obama wants to dodge this is that the money trail leads back to him and his Democrat buddies in Congress. Obama and the Dems tucked their tails and ran when the word “investigation” hit the MSM — before the MSM hacks realized their Lib-Dem buddies ARE the problem, and suppressed any talk about investigating the cause of the economic crisis.

Aengil, in case you didn’t know we have an economic crisis on our hands. This isn’t about Uncle Bob’s bait shop going out of business, this isn’t just our economy, it is global. If you don’t think that is important enough to stop kissing babies for 3 days then you are seriously misguided.

marylou: “Both presidential candidate should be in Washington (as they’re being paid to be) working on this bailout.”
No, they should not be. They should be keeping in touch with the people who actually are negotiating this bill, not directly involving themselves. They don’t need to be physically there to do that.
Do you really think every senator is involved in the negotiations behind every bill? That wouldn’t even begin to work. Ever hear the expression “too many cooks spoil the broth”?
“Have you seen a list of the Senators who were paid off by Fannie/Freddie and Lehman Brothers? Obama is #2 on BOTH lists.”
By paid off, you mean “received donations from employees” – and in case you were unaware, Obama has received more donations than anyone overall, so of course he’s in the top few for pretty much any company you care to mention. He’s probably received the most donations from Starbucks employees too. Do you think he’s a slave to the barista?

McCain revealed in an interview with a Cleveland TV station Tuesday that he hadn’t yet read the administration’s three-page bailout proposal.
“I have not had a chance to see it in writing,” McCain said. “I have to examine it.”
The admission certainly does raise questions about exactly how McCain can rescue the rescue if he doesn’t know what’s in the original bill.

samhiguchi: What, exactly, do you think McCain (who admits he isn’t an expert on economics) can do that he couldn’t also do while campaigning? Please be specific.

geevill |
Now, I would like your take on this entire week and how Mccain and Palin handled themselves. Go ahead. I dare you!

Concerned in Ohio sez:
I think an interesting report would be to compare and contrast Democrat leadership quotes pre-suspension against Democrat leadership quotes post-suspension.
Also Bob Scheiffer reported this morning that it was McCain who got the 3AM call on this crisis from Paulson, and true to his word, he put Country First.
Every thing this country asks of McCain he gives.
————————————–
Is Paulson now playing favorites?
Is the White House politicizing this
catasrophe?
Stay classy there Concerned in Ohio

Messiah Obama can do no wrong – just keep bundling that money and sending it to him. He knows nothing will be expected in return LOL!!

Natalie,
see whats happened is that the Republicans just gave birth to a socialist government, but they won’t let the Dems nursemaid the infant.
LOL

What exactly is McCain going to do in Washington??? He is Politicizing a bi-partisan bill. He is not part of the committees that will ultimately come up with the plan. This is just such a lame move by McCain and its already backfiring. Obama is too smart for McCain, hes response was perfect.

Obama is afraid to debate McCain, If Obama wanted to debate he would of agreed on the postponement.
Obama it should be America First Party and Politics last!
Debates are useless anyhow, we already know where the candidate stands.
McCain has shown leadership and Obama has shown cowardice!
Mind you I do not agree with the bailout!
For those who do not understand, right now Obama is the head of the democrat party and McCain the head of the Republican party. The heads of the parties should be present.
I know to Obama all he does is vote present anyhow and we are probably better off he does not go.
Oh by the way since he stated if they call him he will come, well Pres. Bush has called on him to come, lets see what he does!
Bethany Donovan – if Obama would not shy away from debates how come when when he was running in the primary he stated that he would want a bunch of townhall debates with the Republican candidate thru the summer, then when McCain got the nomination he asked Obama for the debates and offered to pay for his flight and Obama ran away from the debates!!
Obama is a whining cry baby and its all about him!

“Either McCain or Obama will inherit the consequences of this bailout – they should BOTH be involved in the negotiations.”
No. They should work through the people already involved in the negotiations. Forcing themselves directly into the middle of negotiations they would not ordinarily be involved with is a recipe for disaster.
Please note, no-one is saying they should ignore the issue. They should certainly be keeping themselves informed and talking regularly with those involved with the negotiations. But there is a world of difference between that and actually showing up.
If they can’t manage to work indirectly through those actually involved in the negotiations, then they are incapable of being President. The President has to do that – they can’t be everywhere.

Yes, well, that is Obama. The ME FIRST, ALL FOR MY CAREER, candidate. Leader of the me first party supported by the me, myself and I Obamabots, the socialist-democrats.

Pure and simple the McCain campaign is trying to use this to hide something. Either a McCain health issue or this is an attempt to get the VP debate postponed or canceled because the Palin debate prep is going poorly. Look at the interview with Kati Kouric she did. When asked about the Rick Davis Fannie Mae connection Palin gave an obviously pre planned answer. No problem at all with that, its how its done. BUT when asked a follow up she hesitated, looked strained then repeated the exact same quote in a tone of voice clearly showing she was just repeated words. No attempt to even sound different. She looked bad, very bad. Not a good omen for an unscripted debate performance. If getting the VP debate tossed is what McCain is REALLY after?

What do you expect from a dirty Chicago politician.

McCain not appearing on David Letterman was probably the equivalent of Obama not appearing on Saturday Night Live two weeks ago as Hurricane Ike came ashore.
Speaking to the national media (Couric) regarding a national crisis is one thing, appearing on a variety/comedy/talk show while the crisis is looming, quite another.
McCain had stated yesterday during his press conference that he would return to Washington today AFTER he spoke at Clinton’s Global Initiative.

What a surprise McCain agrees with the president once again and now he is politicizing this non partisan debate.
Go debate and take your medicine old man.
What a terrible campaign McCain is running. How can America take him seriously.

SandyB,
He stiffed Letterman and then shows up for Couric after saying he had a pressing engagement in D.C.
spin that one.

A gimmick, a stunt by McCain
to blunt his rapid slide in
the polls. A friend of
lobbyists, big oil and big
business, McCain’s response
to middle-class Americans
has always been Drop Dead.

Jake …Obama never said he could not multi task, McCain did!

Both of them still earn a salary as Senators. Both should be there if everyone else is.

Why McCain would want to be on Letterman is beyond me.
He’ll get the same respect he got on “The View”
Walters tells Obama that Obama is sexy and then cannot look McCain in the eye when talking to him.
Goldberg asks McCain if she has to worry about slavery returning if McCain is elected.
What cretins.
The same for Letterman.

NEW VOTER DO YOUR HOMEWORK BETTER YOU JUST GOT WELL LETS JUST SAY IT (F) I HAVE BEEN VOTING FOR A LONG TIME IM DIGUSTED WITH BOTH SIDES.

drjohn
re: “I would also bet that Obama has already been given the questions for the debate by the press.”
yeah,,,it would take a fortune teller to guess what questions will be asked by the press in Presidential debates..

am i allowed to post?

Wade,
Obama will get an hour of free air time with millions of viewers where he can take questions and look presidential.
I seriously advise McCain to show up.

McCain is a deregulator and massive deregulation which amounts to removing teh rules that govern how we do business is what led to this crisis. McCain is an advocate of a completely free market and now blames Wallstreet for being greedy once the rules were removed by a Republican administration.
Obama on the other hand understands that we need regulation to protect consumers and prevent big business from ggaming the system.
Republican economic philosophy that McCain subscribes to have put this country in a dire situation.

Bush Makes Scary Speech.
How presidential in an economic crisis.
GIVE US YOUR MONEY NOW.

HP Boston
so.. as the polls show disaster for MCain..
first McCain changes his positions on an hourly basis…then he states that he can’t do 2 things at the same time, then… as he and Palin are woefully unprepared for the debates he wants to cancel them……but… then he says he’s suspending his campaign but he still makes speeches and Palin still campaigns,.. then… he kneels down in front of Bush for some casual booty kissing… and says that he’s goin’ to DC to save the day, while Bush looks like a ‘moose in the headlights’
H.P. darlin’.. methinks you doth protest too much
Misson Accomplished

ANCHOR: As for the massive Wall Street bailout McCain insists it have…
JSM: Oversight that is effective and transparent. We need people like Warren Buffet and Mike Bloomberg and Mitt Romney to have an oversight of this. We can’t put that responsibility in the hands of one person.
ANCHOR: The crunch question. Would you vote for it as it’s presently constructed?
JSM: I have not had a chance to see it in writing so I have to examine that.
—————————————-
This plan is 3 pages long. What does it take to get him to read something.

“Debates are down the list of priorities unless you’re a big network money grabber or a cheap shot TV night show host.”
OR if you’re an undecided voter. Block the debates, block the press, let them vote on our merits and campaign slogans alone.

Rick Davis, John McCain’s campaign manager, has remained the treasurer and a corporate director of his lobbying firm this year, despite repeated statements by campaign officials that he had ended his relationship with the firm in 2006, this, according to corporate records.
He’s taken over 2 million dollars from Freddie Mac!
Another McSame operative, Phil Gramm – the man who called Americans whiners, in October 1999, when Senate Republicans led by him were deep in negotiations on key legislation to deregulate the banking industry, McCain was at a primary debate in New Hampshire touting the benefits of such a measure.
“There’s a number of reasons why we are experiencing this almost unprecedented prosperity,” McCain said back then. “Among them are a lack of regulation, free trade, and most importantly, we are going through a revolution the likes of which the world has seldom seen.”
The gig is up McLame!

Hacky,
Thank you for that moment of insight.
I swear he treats everything like a one night stand.

Hmmm… does a suspension include Nancy Pfotenhauer talking about Biden and Obama’s foreign policy on Fox?

Rick seems to think that one of the candidates has a memory problem.

Nancy Pfotenhauer , well she’s a real piece of work, watch her ,when she starts to lie she can’t keep a straight face… she starts to flash a big ‘I can’t believe I just said that’ grin…

hmn If McCain can’t face Letterman, then how can he face Ahmenijhad???
Wow, what a stupid and ridiculous statement!!! Letterman is a joke.. So what McCain skipped his boring a## show big freaking deal!!!

“It’s ALWAYS the Dems playing the “race” card.”
As opposed to the GOP, who would never dare play the SEX card

McCain was asked to come back to washington by the treasury secretary Paulson.
McCain put his country first before himself.
McCain cancelled letterman, cancelled a fox interview, is taking down his ads.
Obama always puts himself before the country.
Reid and Pelosi were calling for McCain to come back. The dems are being hypocrtical.

on tuesday mccain had yet to read paulsons three page proposal
suddenly on wednesday its a crisis
now we need to move the presidential debate to where the vp debate is, and then reschedule the vp debate for…
well…
a later undisclosed date…
say after nov 4

spock:
re: “For those who do not understand, right now Obama is the head of the democrat party and McCain the head of the Republican party. The heads of the parties should be present.”
last time I checked… Bush (republican) was still President and Cheney was still V.P.

So has Obama suspended his fundraising now that the economy is down the toilet or is he still trying to hit the half a billion dollar mark?

McCain is proving over and
over he is the most
rattlebrained candidate
ever to run for POTUS.

When you drop in the polls , you have to grab any thing for headlines , I didnt see a great emergency when he was cooking ribs on Racheal Ray the other day .HE forgot to mention that he is not on any commitee, and they meet behind closed doors , and McCain is not allowed inside , do your job media tell the people the truth , what another grandstand for MaGoo, country first, what a joke this man is.

So has Obama suspended his fundraising now that the economy is down the toilet or is he still trying to hit the half a billion dollar mark?
Posted by: Maria | Sep 25, 2008 12:21:55 PM
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I will give up putting gas in my car this week to give money to Obama…
If that is what I have to do to keep McInsane and Caribou Barbie out of the White house, I will do just that!!!
McChicken, you are just an embarrassment to the office of the presidency – Suspend your campaign??
What a pathetic JOKE YOU ARE!!!

The Governor of Mississippi says the debate will go forward. May-be Obama will take Bob Barr up on his offer and debate him since McCain can not do more than one thing at a time.

a better plan?
(with tongue firmly planted in cheek)
I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a ‘We Deserve It Dividend’.
To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bon-a-fide U.S. Citizens 18+.
Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..
So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.
My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a ‘We Deserve It Dividend’.
Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%.
Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.
But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000.00.

“this is just a political stunt to try to save his faultering campaign”
Faltering campaign? They’re down by 3 points in Rasmussen and Gallup.

JUST LOVE IT!!!
I just love to see all the Republican trolls scrambling and squirming around – just trying to justify McChickens latest dumb move…
What a PATHETIC JOKE YOU PEOPLE ARE!!!!!
This is just like when that fool Perot quit back in 1992!!!

palin will suspend her campaign as well because it woudl be hard not to answer questions if shes the only one out there
oh, but she will attend the fundraisers set up for her
pathetic

McCain goes into suspended
animation hoping he can
later resume his campaign.
That’s not going to happen.
His campaign is dead. It
cannot be resuscitated.

Is Obama bitter?
Clinging to the Friday debate instead of actively engaging in resolving the worse financial crisis since the Great Depression?

“Mission Accomplished”
Hardly.

“a better plan?
(with tongue firmly planted in cheek)”
I like your plan the best.

McCain has been ready and willing to debate for months, so he’s hardly “chickening out” now. Obama’s in a panic over postponing it because the notes he inked on his arm during his cram session are fading.
And whoever is elected president will have to deal with the repercussions of the terms of this bailout, so it only makes sense for them to be involved in the process. Apparently Obama’s too dumb to figure that out. I just hope McCain brings James Galbraith with him (see JG’s op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post).

McCain if allowed into
the discussions on the
bailout would probably
keep interjecting with
“I am fundamentally a
deregulator” and “The
economic fundamentals
are good.”

Oh, so NOW Obama will do a Town Hall WITHOUT McCain?
Priceless.

Why is the Press Secretary, saying McCain called the President, after talking to Obama, yet McCain said he talked to Obama, just before making his, ‘Stall the Debate Speech’? Who is lying now? McCain or the Press Secretary? Is this turning into a Republican Circus? Is Bush hoping McBush will wear his pants?
America needs to go through both videos again.
Press Secretary Speech 11:39 am Today.
McCains ‘Stall’ speech yesterday.
I still want to know if McCain will do as Bush asks, and help Middle America? Or will he give in, to the Republicans, and continue to tank, Middle America? Either way, he becomes a ‘Mission Accomplished’ Bush. Or a Capitolist Bleeder. Either way McCain did say, As of this morning,I will not be campaigning…’, during his campaign speech. McMulti-Face, once again, confusses America with Double Talk speech. Is he now taking on Obamas Platform, of helping Middle America? Or will he continue to help only 5% of Capitolists? Will Black Gold continue lining his pockets? Will Rick Davis watch the Debate from prison? McCains ‘Hail Mary Pass’ was intercepted by Obama. Question now is, can Obama score a touchdown, or will McFumble make a tackle?
Come on Bush, Make McCain help Middle America. I want to hear ‘Mission Accomplished, this week.
Still vote ‘No’, to McWhere is Palin?

SandyB
re: “so NOW Obama will do a Town Hall WITHOUT McCain?”
actually the symbolism would be great, Obama speaking in great depth on the issues..
an empty chair … representing McCain and Republican empty policies
Mission Accomplished

“actually the symbolism would be great, Obama speaking in great depth on the issues.. ” that personally affect his campaign.

The bush adminstration in 4/2001 raised red flags, the 2002 budget requests declares Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
“Potential problem.. and can cause strong repercussions in the financial markets”
In 2003 the White House upgraded the warning to a systemic risk that could spread beyond the housing sector.
John Snow Treasury Secretary called for Regulations & Supervision of GSE’s.
Barney Frank (D-MA) denied there was any problem ” Fannie Mac & Freddie Mare are not in Crisis”
Encouraging the government to do more to get low income families into homes, Ultimately blocking the regulation.
Allan Greenspan , 2/17/2005 spoke about the dangers of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac “enabling these institutions to
increase in size -and they will once the crisis in their judgement passes-we are placing the total financial system of
the future at a substantial risk
Charles Schumer (D-NY) 4/6/2005 …”I think Fannie & Freddie have done an incredibly good job, and are an intristic
part of making america the best housed people in the world….if you look over the last 20 or whatever yrs. Theyve
done a very, very good job.
McCain (R-AZ) 5/25/2006 For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac…
and there sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market…the GSE’s need to be reformed without delay.”
That bill ( FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE REGULATORY REFORM ACT) made it out of the senate banking committee with a party line vote all the democrats voted against it.
Senator Obama did not weigh in on the bill

Why do Republican’s have to defend every boneheaded McCain move? C’mon we are all adults here we can handle it. Except McCain who has an anger problem, called his wife a **** in a fit of rage in front of reporters.

Obama a leader?
Theoretically he could be President of the United States and has to live with the financial mess for maybe the next 8 years.
But he does not have enough interest to go there and lead the way to get something he can work with.
And if you all think Obama can have any influence on anything in D.C. from the campaign trail, then why don’t we save lots of money, close down Capitol Hill and let all the Senators teleconference to work from their home states or travel junkets.

How much Bank scandel actually follows McCain? Well, He was investigated and largely exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the ‘Keating Five’. His connection to Rick Davis, how imbezzeled money from Fannie Mae, as early as last week. And was one of his sons, who was a bank auditor, mysteriously left his job , two months before going bankrupt. I have a question, about any other organizations, he may be a part of.
Skull and Crossbones?
Masons?
Something else?
Americans may be curious to know which one. I suggest transparency be implemented. At least that is McCains platform. It still is, Right?

McCain rides into DC to assist in the financial planning… but what did he say previously about his economic bona fides….
BARTIROMO: Sen. McCain, has Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cut interest rates aggressively enough?
Has Ben Bernanke cut interests rates aggressively enough?
McCAIN: I’m not…I’m not…I don’t have that kind of expertise to know exactly whether he has cut interest rates suffiently or not.
I’m glad that whenever they cut interest rates. I wish interest rates were zero.
Mission Accomplished

Oh please, McCain’s little sideshow in Washington is pure politics – and the polls show that the American people think it is too. He’s said so many different things in the past week on the economy that it is literally impossible to keep track of them.
He seems to forget that his former campaign co-chair, Phil Gramm, is at the epicenter of this mess, wrote the bills that allowed it to happen and that McCain himself, with one exception has a 26-year record of supporting deregulation. What hypocrisy.

Both McCain & Obama have outlined their principles for the bailout:
McCain
-Oversight
-Return for taxpayers
-Transparency of the legislation
-No “golden parachutes”
-No earmarks in the bill
Obama
-Oversight
-Return for taxpayers
-No “golden parachutes”
-Assistance for those in danger of foreclosure
McCain offers no help for homeowners and again rails against earmarks that NO ONE has proposed for the bill!
I am so upset at McCain for injecting so much drama into this crisis. It was bad enough already without him adding fuel to the fire. I feel worse about the crisis then I did before yesterday.

I agree with alot of people in here that mccain is retreating….
couple of facts that led up to this irrational behavior
1. his poll numbers are down, they show that obama is better able to handle the economy over mccain by a 2 to 1 ratio
2. sarah palin does not have the experience to fill in for mccain and go to dc on his behalf, leaving mccain to do it himself
3. Rick Davis, mccains campaign manager was just exposed that he, up till last month, was still recieving money from fannie mae and freddie mac…doesnt look good for mccains “no lobbyist, reformer image”
4. (more of a question) what does mccain think he’s going to get done? if he had ideas couldn’t he have emailed them? Does he think he is some knight in shining armor that is going to woo everyone to believe what he does?
the MCCAIN/PALIN Team is a FAILURE….if the senate creates a bill to bailout these companies mccain can vote, obama and biden can, but Palin CANT…..

AGAIN, I WANT TO REITERATE THAT THE CURRENT CRISIS IS MOSTLY THE RESULT OF POOR WALL ST. OVERSIGHT RELATED TO THE SUBPRIME AND ALT-A MARKETS (DEFINED AS NOT SALABLE TO FANNIE MAE, FREDDIE MAC, GINNIE MAE OR HUD).
THESE LOANS ARE PACKAGED AND SOLD ON WALL ST. WALL ST SET THE GUIDELINES FOR THESE MARKETS (SUBPRIME AND ALT-A), NOT THE GSE’S.
THIS IS A WALL ST. PROBLEM, NOT GSE. IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT.

I’m reading these comments and comments on other random articles and blogs today and am utterly amazed at the uninformed and hardly coherent bashing of oponents. Does anyone actually debate the issues at all?
just a few points for some of the comments above.
1. ridiculing Obama for not being prepared for the debate and cramming is ludicrous. if you actually paid attention to him when he speaks or if you read his extremely detailed policy statements instead of making stuff up to support your position you’d know he is the most knowledgeable candidate by far. You may prefer McCain’s politics and leadership style and that is a fine reason to make a choice, but if you try to argue he is more knowledgeable about the issues you aren’t very well informed.
2. The senate is not the group coming up with the bail out plan, it is a small group of policy makers and McCain and Obama are not only unecessary they are unwanted and would put politics squarly in the way of the work that needs to be done. Obama made the responsible country-first choice here and McCain is insinuating himself where he can’t even contribute. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and not assume it was 100% political maneuvering on his part and he actually thinks he can do something. After all, his support of the plan is in fact needed and wanted – just not his actual presence. But even so he makes me very nervous jumping around throwing out comments, retracting them, making broad sweeping statements without having all the facts and grandstanding. You may prefer this bull in a china closet approach to leadership where decisions are made with a roll of the dice, but I prefer someone who actually thinks before he acts and then acts decisively.
3. And in response to several comments I have seen today that really confused me…off topic I’m afraid. In regards to the press’s focus on Gov. Palin and her rather shaky interview with Katie Couric last night. I keep seeing comments to the effect of, “why are they picking on her? They aren’t picking on the others!” Huh? I guess that just goes to show that the attention span of the American people is desperately short. The only way you could have missed the extremely intense vetting of all three other candidates is if you didn’t bother to care about paying attention until Gov. Palin showed up. She isn’t being picked on. In fact she is being handled with kid gloves as if she is breakable. She deserves better than to be coddled by her campaign, by these commentors and by the press – all three. Obviously I am an Obama supporter, but I consider it my responsibility to pay attention to every candidate and give them the benefit of my attention and an open mind. If Gov. Palin has something to say, I am ready to hear it.